Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play

The Committee was formed in Jan. 1943 to preserve the constitutional rights of persons of Japanese ancestry who had been evacuated from the Pacific Coast and relocated to the interior of the U.S. by presidential proclamation in 1942. The committee was an outgrowth of the Committee on National Security and Fair Play, which had been originally constituted in Oct. 1941, under the name, Northern California Committee for Fair Play for Citizens and Aliens of Japanese Ancestry. The committee acted an an unofficial public relations repre sentative of the War Dept., the Justice Dept., the State Dept., the War Relocation Authority, and any other government body or civil servant whose responsibility it was to express a considered opinion concerning persons of Japanese ancestry in the U.S. The Committee dissolved itself in Dec. 1945.

From the description of Pacific Coast Committee on American Principles and Fair Play records, 1940-1951. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80971442

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